Andrew Peterson writes songs, books with equal skill

Well-rounded Christian recording artist Andrew Peterson is releasing a new album in October that includes a family element: his 15-year-old son Asher on the drums.

Peterson’s album, “The Burning Edge of Dawn,” features 10 songs that he wrote between February to May of this year with friend and producer Gabe Scott of the Crowder band.

The Middle Tennessee resident says that although he did not write the songs “off the cuff,” the process was much faster than normal. Having written only one song before going to the studio, he had to perform the songs for the first time in preproduction because he had just finished writing in another of his genres — fiction books. He had just finished writing “The Warden and the Wolf King,” the final book in the award-winning “Wingfeather Saga” series. He says he was creatively spent by the point but…